Italian police from the southern
city of Matera on Tuesday arrested 11 people on suspicion of
committing crimes against the civil service and the public
administration all across Italy.
Some of those arrested were public officials, police said.
They were placed under house arrest.
The arrests were made in the provinces of Potenza, Matera,
Taranto, Caserta, Rome, Milan and Turin.
Police seized some 8.2 million euros in the operation.
The crimes involved scams to defraud agricultural funding,
police said.
An official from the food and farming market service agency
ISMEA, Giuseppe Fierro, was among those arrested.
An employee of the Basilicata regional government, Saverio
Nuzzolese, was also arrested.
In all, 22 people were placed under investigation.
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